What Ally Does

Ally scans course your content in Brightspace for accessibility issues and provides feedback, along with step-by-step guidance for fixing issues. 

Specifically, Ally provides the following information:

• An accessibility score for your course with step-by-step instructions for making your course more accessible.
• An accessibility score for individual documents added to Brightspace along with instructions to correct them.
• Alternative accessible formats for documents;
  • HTML for viewing the document on mobile devices
  • ePub for reading on Ipads and other e-book readers
  • Electronic Braille 
  • Audio for listening to the document
  • BeeLine Reader for faster reading comprehension
  • Immersive Reader to assist with grammar and comprehension skills
  • Translated version for most world languages
  • Tagged PDF for PDF and most Microsoft documents
  • OCRed PDF for scanned documents

Locate a Document's Accessibility Score

Ally scores are represented by a numerical scale, from 0% to 100%, and a colored gauge with a low, medium, or high tag. 

1. After uploading a document in any format to Brightspace, Ally will automatically scan your document.  A small colored gauge will appear to the right of your document within a minute or two.  If you have a document with a large number of pictures the scan will take several minutes.  
2. After opening your Brightspace course, locate the course module with the document.  To the right of your document, you'll see a colored gauge that document's accessibility score.  

Interpret your Document Accessibility Score

To interpret your document's accessibility score, hover your cursor over the colored Ally gauge.                                                                                                               

If you didn't get at least 85%, you need to fix your document.

Remediating Documents with Ally

To begin repairing your document, click on the gauge icon.  This will open a new window.  When the new page opens your document will appear on the left side and the Ally support will appear on the right side.

Under the accessibility score will be the most issues that need remediation. 

What this means - offers a more detailed explanation.  

Follow the onscreen step-by-step instructions to repair your document.

Repeat these steps until all of document issues have been corrected.

Double Check your Revised Document's Accessibility Score

Now that your documents have been remediated, let's return to Ally and locate your new accessibility score.

After locating the document in your course module, refresh the page to get the most recent accessibility score.